Week 5 Activation
Hearing God's Voice in Our Professional Life
This week's activation is a build on of the previous weeks. Last week we heard God speak to us in a very private an personal manner. This week we will do something similar, but targeting our ministry or vocation or school (depending on where we are at in our life). This week we will be sharing what we hear with our partner, so that our partner can pray for us and agree with us regarding what God speaks to us.
We will be asking God to speak to us in a specific area of our life and writing down what He says. Then we will share what He said (or a summary of what He said if you prefer) with our partner. Our partner will pray for us regarding this. Also, your partner will share with you what God said to them, and you will ask the Holy Spirit to guide you in a spirit led prayer regarding what God spoke to your partner.
Thus we will each be hearing for God in two ways.. one is personally.. God speaking directly to us. The other is prophetic prayer.. God giving us a spirit led prayer ministering to the area our partner shares with us. The prayer is every bit as much a part of the activation as the listening to God, so do look to God to lead/direct your prayer for your partner.
Remember that God is a communicating God and he desires very much to communicate with you in a clear and easy to understand manner. We are going to have a couple of topics that you may ask God about, and then listen to and record his answer to you. Then you will share it with your partner, and your partner will seek God for a spirit led prayer of agreement for you on what God spoke to you.
If you can trust God to speak through you to others, then you can also trust him to speak directly to you. In fact, it may be easier to hear God for yourself, as God promised that his sheep will hear his voice.
And God has appointed us as priests before him, so we can certainly trust Him to give us a spirit-led prayer of agreement for what God speaks to our partner.
Remember, that you are a born-again, blood washed, redeemed child of God, so if you have Christ within you, you also have the Mind of Christ.
When we ask our Father for bread, he does not give us a stone (Matt 7:9). Because you are God's child, you can safely trust that he will in fact meet you and give you a revelation for you partner when you ask him to.
Pray this together as a group before you begin to work individually with the Lord. The group leader may wish to lead this prayer out loud with the others agreeing silently, or you may all want to pray it out loud together.
Dear Lord, In the name of your Son, Jesus Christ, I come before your throne. I am washed by the blood. Christ lives within me. Not just in part, but in my whole being. I bring every thought of my mind and soul into captivity to the mind of Christ. I will listen to you what you have to say to me, trusting you to communicate with me. I will write down what you say to me, I will not question it but will write it out just as I hear you give it to me. Then I will trust you to confirm or correct it later on when I prayerfully review it with you. I am a believer, and I expect to receive. I thank you for speaking to me. Amen.
The purpose of this short and specific prayer is to bind any hindering or religious spirits and to release faith and anointing. Feel free to use whatever words you choose for this but it does not have to be long and involved. (If you need an example prayer, please refer to the week 1 activation.)
Find a place that is relatively free from distraction.. preferably a quiet place. If you are writing the word, have pen and pencil handy, or if you are doing it on the computer, open your editor so that you are ready to begin typing. You may desire to have worship music playing quietly in the background, or you may prefer silence... use whichever works best for you when you are in your quiet times with God.
If you are comfortable with praying in tongues, begin praying in the spirit. Otherwise worship or quietly ask God to speak to you. Look deeply inside, listen closely, see and hear what God is saying. Do this for about a minute. Then, no more praying, only listening, for about 30 to 45 seconds.
This allows you to really tune in.
We want to ask God to speak deeply and personally to us about certain aspects of our lives. Below are fours different options you can use to launch into listening to God speak to you. Please read over them and decide which you will use.. you may need to go back and repeat step 6 after you select a strategy before you actually start. But we want you to be spirit led even on the selection of the questions you ask God. So we are providing four options. Chose one and ask God to speak to you.
Ask God to speak to you about one of the following areas:
Listen to what God says to you in this area and write it down.
Please note: You may need some times of 'listening waiting' in between hearing from God. So when you stop hearing, don't immediately assume God is done. Instead ask him if he has more to say to you and wait a few minutes.. often God will have more to say. Don't be afraid to have hesitations where you wait on him before he says more to you.
Both you and your partner will share what God said to you. If you are on an interactive online format (AOL, ICQ, IRC) then decide who goes first. Email partners just mail it to your partner when you are ready.
First tell them which of the four areas you asked God to speak to you about. Then you can either share what you wrote down, or you can summarize it for them (e.g., share just the main points/themes of what He said to you.) When you have shared, your partner will minister to you and when your partner has shared, you will minister to them.
As the person shares what God said to them, listen to them with one ear. Listen to God with the other ear and ask Him to show you how to pray into this.
Then simply began to pray the spirit-led prayer for your partner. If you are doing the activations by email, email the prayer to your partner.